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Dominic Raab condemned malign activities by Russia after Czech police said they are searching for men carrying passports in the names of Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov.
The Russian ambassador to the UK said he has not seen Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab for more than a year amid rising tensions.
It comes after Mr Raab said the UK and US were determined to stand together against what he described as Russia’s “malign behaviour” following a major cyber attack on the West.
Andrey Kelin was summoned to the Foreign Office to be told the UK will continue to work with allies “to call out and counter malign operations” by Moscow’s spies.
Speaking to the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Mr Kelin said: “If Dominic Raab is really seeing how Russia interferes or demolish democracy, I am ready to discuss it with him.
Russia Says It Will Retaliate Hard Against Czech Republic Over Diplomat Expulsions
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Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday it would take tough retaliatory measures against the Czech Republic over Prague’s expulsion of 18 Russian diplomats on what Moscow said were unfounded and absurd grounds.
The Czech Republic
expelled 18 Russian embassy staff on Saturday over the suspected involvement of Russia’s intelligence services in a 2014 ammunition depot explosion that killed two people.
“We will take retaliatory measures that will force the authors of this provocation to fully understand their responsibility for destroying the foundation of normal ties between our countries,” the ministry said in a statement.
By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Robert Muller MOSCOW/PRAGUE (Reuters) -Moscow reacted furiously on Sunday to Czech accusations that two Russian spies accused of a nerve agent poisoning in Britain in 2018 were behind an explosion at a Czech ammunition dump four years earlier, which killed two people. Prague on Saturday expelled no fewer than 18 Russian diplomats, prompting Russia s Foreign Ministry to vow on Sunday to force the authors of this provocation to fully understand their responsibility for destroying the foundation of normal ties between our countries . The Czech Republic said it had informed NATO and European Union allies that it suspected Russia of causing the blast, and European Union foreign ministers were set to discuss the matter at their meeting on Monday. The row is the biggest between Prague and Moscow since the end of decades of Soviet domination of eastern Europe in 1989. It also adds to growing tensions between Russia and the West in general, raised in part by Ru